Stewart also reveals that former FBI director James Comey had deep concerns about the impartiality of former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

When it came to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, Comey considered asking for her to appoint a Special Counsel because he was so alarmed – but she rebuffed him.

The revelations in ‘Deep State’ about Lynch relate to her meeting Bill Clinton on the tarmac at Phoenix airport in June 2016 when their two planes happened to be there at the same time.

The timing was seized on by Republicans because it was in the middle of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

According to Stewart, Comey felt the same and was ‘nagged in his distrust of Lynch’s impartiality by a report, provided by a highly placed informant’.

Stewart writes that the informant told Comey of an email from Deborah Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, to Leonard Benardo, an executive with the Open Society Foundations, which was founded by George Soros.

In it, Wasserman Schultz allegedly assured Benardo that Lynch wouldn’t let the Clinton investigation get very far, suggesting that Lynch would protect Clinton.

The report did not include the actual text but the summary was enough for Comey to ‘continue to worry about Lynch’s impartiality’, Stewart writes.